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Boy, things are sure looking good for Microsoft and Yahoo to get down to business with their newly founded partnership. And with the Canadian and Australian governments on board with it now, we are likely going to see things with the two search giants moving faster than they have thus far.
So what does it all [...]

Before I jump on the “Murdoch is a fool” bandwagon, let’s think about something for a minute. First off, my gut tells me that much of the News Corp. content is on par for the same audience tempted to use Bing and other Microsoft products besides merely Windows.
Second, I honestly don’t think either Google or [...]

While this article from the NY Times is clearly an opinion piece, it speaks with authority against Bing as if it is somehow doing “worse” than what Google and Yahoo! have done in China.
The short of it is that (without a source, I might add) Bing is allegedly working with Chinese authorities to skew search [...]

Would you use Bing in exchange for some free Wi-Fi? Honestly, depending on where I was financially, I might. Then again, I suspect some folks will find a way to simply game the system so they can still use Google, but enjoy that free Wi-Fi that Bing is to be offering at select locations.
I will [...]

Bing users will be happy to hear that Microsoft has released Bing Mobile for those looking to Bing while on the go. And from the looks of things, it appears that Bing Mobile provides the full functionality of the Bing search engine.
Where Bing really steps it up, is for touch devices. Likely being aimed at [...]

Are quality search results just too much to ask for? According to this article, one might easily come to this conclusion sooner rather than later. The problem is despite advancements given, some search engines remains better than others depending on the query.
Even then, those other search engines that provides results from everywhere are not really [...]

Yes, because clearly the solution to my search queries are going to come from the mindless updates from Facebook. Really? Is this a worthy addition to Bing’s otherwise usable search functionality.
I would point out that the same thing applies to Twitter as well. A great way to communicate, but there is no way that I [...]

I really don’t believe that there is any way that Google is taking the news of the Yahoo!-Microsoft deal without a fight. Perhaps not so much in the public light, but behind the scenes, at some basic level.
The thing is that while Bing-Hoo is hardly a threat to the mind share that is Google, it [...]

I don’t think that there is any question that Bing is one of the best things that Microsoft has done in a long time. That being said, however, I simply do not feel that Bing is anywhere near being in a position to yet pose a real threat to Google. It just does not seem [...]

I really wish people would be more careful with their Windows PCs. Seriously, there is just no excuse to allow your machine to become a part of a botnet unwittingly these days. Yet despite my feelings on the matter, they are still very much a part of our lives.
In this article, we begin to see [...]

So while the above title might sound a bit off, the fact of the matter is this is exactly what some people are wondering. Should search engines begin crawling Ajax pages?
Google maintains the argument that if we did support Ajax web crawling, it would significantly improve the web and search as we know it. After [...]

Never been a big fan of the idea behind the social search engine. However looking at what StumbleUpon (SU) has for its own capabilities, maybe I am being a bit harsh here. Or am I?
The problem is that most people using a search engine do so looking to find out about specific info. And while [...]

As this article points out clearly enough, Bing now allows mobile users to use mobile search with their voices, much like you might see with Google and have seen for sometime now.
So here’s the rub, despite what the article claims about Google being first to market on this voice search functionality, the fact is that [...]

In this economy, now bundled with new competition from other search engines as Bing/Yahoo and Google fight it out, I cannot help but wonder where in the world this leaves Ask.com?
Unless you have a preference for their offerings or a tool bar installed, I fail to get exactly where their future is? Then I came across [...]

Is Google going to maintain their market share for long? With Microsoft raging behind the scenes unlike anything I have seen before, it is beginning to look like Google may need to step up their game a bit.
With Google cleaning up things with junk landing pages in AdWords, further closing the clamps on AdSense, in [...]

It is not all that often that I find myself in a position where Microsoft does something really cool. But the news of Bing offering PSA alerts about potential scams when end users are doing a query for something such a business opportunities, I find myself liking what I see.
Educating people on the various scams [...]

In recent weeks, we’ve noticed a surge in clients calling us to ask questions like “what’s up with Bing?” Or, “are you optimizing for Bing?” Even “are you taking advantage of Bing?”
In other words, people want to know that their search engine optimization company is taking special steps to ensure adequate representation on the newly [...]

Not entirely sure why this makes a lot of sense? While I can see Google seeking out other levels of talent from Yahoo, I am not really sure “search” is an area I would be recruiting for in the Yahoo space if I was Google?
So while Google recruiting these guys makes zero sense to me, Ask.com [...]

I have said it once, I will say it again. If Bing can get a better handle on providing results that are honestly more relevant than Google, then Google is in deep trouble. Luckily this has not happened just yet.
Despite Bing not quite hitting the mark just yet, I think this article demonstrates just how [...]

While I am still not a Bing user myself as I have not seen clear advantage personally, I have seen an increase to my wife’s blog recently. This is a good thing, assuming folks are actually coming from the search engine.
So when I heard that Bing 2.0 is just around the corner, naturally I was [...]